Structure and enumeration of (3+1)-free posets (extended abstract)
Combinatorics
2014-04-18 v2
Abstract
A poset is (3+1)-free if it does not contain the disjoint union of chains of length 3 and 1 as an induced subposet. These posets are the subject of the (3+1)-free conjecture of Stanley and Stembridge. Recently, Lewis and Zhang have enumerated \emph{graded} (3+1)-free posets, but until now the general enumeration problem has remained open. We enumerate all (3+1)-free posets by giving a decomposition into bipartite graphs, and obtain generating functions for (3+1)-free posets with labelled or unlabelled vertices.
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@article{arxiv.1212.5356,
title = {Structure and enumeration of (3+1)-free posets (extended abstract)},
author = {Mathieu Guay-Paquet and Alejandro H. Morales and Eric Rowland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5356},
year = {2014}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures